Additives

Valvoline Inc. Reports Higher Profits, Sales

Valvoline Inc. Reports Higher Profits, Sales

Lube Report Americas - August 9, 2023

Valvoline Inc. reported large increases in income and sales from continuing operations and in system-wide store sales fo ...

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PIB Expansion Planned at Ludwigshafen

Lube Report EMEA - August 8, 2023

BASF will expand its capacity to produce medium-molecular weight polyisobutenes at its Verbund petrochemical refinery in ...

Tsuno Makes Esters from Used Cooking Oil

Tsuno Makes Esters from Used Cooking Oil

Lube Report Asia - July 28, 2023

Tsuno Group, a Japanese chemical company, announced the launch of fatty acid esters made from used cooking oil. The lub ...

Profits Up for Afton, WD-40

Profits Up for Afton, WD-40

Lube Report Americas - July 26, 2023

Increased selling prices helped lead to increased operating profit for Afton Chemical’s petroleum additives business f ...

Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

Belarus Additives Joint Venture Expands

Lube Report EMEA - July 18, 2023

Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its ...

China Industry Wants Domestic Viscosity Modifiers

China Industry Wants Domestic Viscosity Modifiers

Lube Report Asia - July 14, 2023

In step with central government goals for a wide range of sectors, China’s lubricant industry is in a hurry to develop ...

Infineum Releases Third Sustainability Report

Infineum Releases Third Sustainability Report

Sustainability InSite - July 13, 2023

U.K.-based specialty chemicals company Infineum recently released its third annual sustainability report. In the report, ...

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Another Lithium Project Planned in Canada

Lube Report Americas - July 12, 2023

Avalon Advanced Materials and Metso Corp. reached a memorandum of understanding this week to develop a lithium hydroxide ...

EU Takes Input on Chlorinated Paraffin Proposal

EU Takes Input on Chlorinated Paraffin Proposal

Lube Report EMEA - July 11, 2023

Aug. 14 is the deadline for comments on a European Chemicals Agency draft opinion on a proposal to restrict medium-chain ...

Richful Q1 Profits, Sales Rise

Richful Q1 Profits, Sales Rise

Lube Report Asia - July 7, 2023

China’s Richful Lube Additives Co. reported an 88% jump in net profit for and a 58% rise in sales revenue for the firs ...

Russian Motor Group Complains of Lube Shortage

Russian Motor Group Complains of Lube Shortage

Lube Report EMEA - July 4, 2023

A Russian motorist group complained to the central government last week that the country faces a growing shortage of aut ...

Grease Ouput Up in North America, Globally

Grease Ouput Up in North America, Globally

Lube Report Americas - June 28, 2023

North America’s lubricating grease production jumped up 16% in 2022, signaling a further rebounding from the impacts o ...

European Grease Output Nearly Steady in 2022

European Grease Output Nearly Steady in 2022

Lube Report EMEA - June 27, 2023

European grease production declined slightly in 2022, dipping less than a third of one percent compared to the prior yea ...

Survey: China, India Shift from Lithium Greases

Survey: China, India Shift from Lithium Greases

Lube Report Asia - June 23, 2023

Use of lithium soap grease thickeners dropped significantly in China and South Asia in 2022, according to the latest ver ...

U.S. Focusing on Battery Materials Processing

U.S. Focusing on Battery Materials Processing

Lube Report Americas - June 21, 2023

The supply chain for electric vehicles is becoming more central to the United States’ automotive sector, making it cru ...

Petronas to Acquire, Upgrade Maleic Plant

Petronas to Acquire, Upgrade Maleic Plant

Lube Report Asia - June 16, 2023

Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd. is buying a maleic anhydride plant from its Malaysian joint venture with BASF and plans to ...

Spotlight on Corrosion Inhibitors

Spotlight on Corrosion Inhibitors

Lubes'n'Greases - June 14, 2023

New Engine and Fuel Technology Opens Doors for Corrosion Inhibitors  Each year on April 24, World Corrosion Awar ...

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U.S. Proposes Tighter Regulation of PFAS

Lube Report Americas - June 14, 2023

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has proposed chemical safety regulation amendments that would tighten ...